![]() While shortlisting the book for Maharashtra, I remembered Cobalt Blue and after a quick look at it found that it fit the two basic criteria that I had set for a book to qualify for this reading challenge - (i) it was a translation, and (ii) it was recent. ![]() But that didn’t happen and the book lay in my to-be-read-pile of books for nearly 2 years, and would probably still be there if not for #TSBCReadsIndia. I was immediately intrigued as till then I had only read Pinto’s original writing in English and hadn’t known that he did translations !Īnd so a copy of Cobalt Blue was bought with the intention of reading it soon. ![]() I didn’t really need to after I saw who had translated this book from the original Marathi into English - Jerry Pinto. ![]() ![]() Presenting the second of 36 books to be read - the book from Maharashtra - in this literary journey across India.Ĭobalt Blue by Sachin Kundalkar (Hardback, 228 pages, 2013, Hamish Hamilton) is probably the only book I have ever bought without reading either the author or book blurb, or even a sample page or two. This book review is part of #TSBCReadsIndia, a reading challenge wherein one reads a book from each State and Union Territory of India. ![]()
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